Opinion: Bye Bye Boomers

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For all the strength of numbers and financial muscle of the Baby Boom generation, it may have gone bust, at least as far as the White House goes.

Barack Obama and now Sarah Palin can only by the biggest of stretches be included in the tail end of the Boomers; Joe Biden arrived a few years too early, and as everyone now knows, there are scores of things younger than John McCain, including Mt. Rushmore, M&Ms and the Baby Boomers.

Unless Hillary Clinton or another Boomer getting long in the tooth were eventually to wind up in the White House, the only Chief Executives from that biggest and most prosperous generation of Americans will be two presidents who have in common only the Boomer tag: Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

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